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Data-Link Makes the Internet Work for You

 

Overview

Asentria Data-Link provides you with the ability to use the Internet for your data transfers. For certain remote polling applications, it is more cost-effective to poll or push data through your local Internet Service Provider (ISP) instead of using a direct long-distance modem connection. Polling data through an ISP allows you to avoid long distance phone charges, which limits your charges to the cost of the Internet service. All you need is an ISP account. Since you can access many PBXs through the same ISP account, your long-distance savings will multiply with each additional PBX you monitor. Service Bureaus that monitor dozens of PBXs, for example, may be able to utilize one ISP account to transfer data instead of incurring long-distance charges for each PBX.


Solution Example

Let’s say you are a call accounting Service Bureau based in the United States monitoring 50 PBXs for customers throughout the country. Each PBX takes 10 minutes to poll via modem at $0.05 per minute, polling each PBX once each day. Your daily long-distance charges are equal to 50 units x 10 minutes x $0.05 = $25.00 per day, or $9,125.00 per year. That is an expense far beyond a typical $240.00 annual Internet fee.


Here is how it works:

  1. Data-Link initiates a call out to ISP using modem point-to-point protocol (PPP). By connecting to the ISP, your Data-Link has access to the Internet, and vice versa.
  2. Data-Link pushes data automatically through the Internet to your server (FTP Push).
Data-Link conecting to the internet

The Company

Asentria develops remote site monitoring and telemanagement solutions that enable providers of critical communications infrastructure to more efficiently and reliably run their networks. Asentria’s products help ensure quality of service and lower operational costs, while making it easier to provision, maintain and support remote equipment. Our strategic solutions fit both large and small communication networks and provide high-value, cost-effective and competitive differentiators to our customers.


Asentria helps administrators cost-effectively manage their call reporting data and remote site infrastructure, while extending confidence and security to ensure availability, integrity and performance. Asentria enables administrators to avoid failures from poor performing equipment that threaten end-user service expectations, while providing better control to predict the performance of remote infrastructure. These new levels of protection shield end-users from remote site equipment failure. Our service provider and enterprise customers trust their remote equipment sites to Asentria. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.